Join us for an evening of poetry from members of new spoken word group Close Poetry, Millie Woodrow, Tom Nutting and Emma Tanner.
Close Poetry runs poetry performance events in Salisbury and the South West. They seek to bring voices together in local community spaces, encouraging confident poets and first time performers alike to take the floor and share their stories.
Millie Woodrow is a writer of poetry and fiction based in Wiltshire. She is presently a student on the Creative Writing MSt at the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in Motherlore, The Passionfruit Review, and Acumen Young Poets. She runs Close Poetry, putting on performance events in Salisbury and the South West, and is working on a pamphlet exploring memory, loss, and familial ties in landscape, engaging archaeology as metaphor for grief. She can be found on Instagram: @milliewoodrowwriter
Tom Nutting is a writer and psychiatrist from Bristol, currently reading for a master’s in creative writing at Oxford. His writing focusses on mental health and medical humanities, on nature and environmental damage, and on queerness. He has been shortlisted for the Starkie poetry prize and won the Lisa Thomas poetry prize. His poetry and prose have been published in Magma, The Hopper, Blue Bottle Journal, BJPsych, ORB, among others. As an NHS doctor, he supports people with severe mental illness, is conducting research into nature-based care, and also volunteers with Medical Justice.
Insta: @tomnutting
Emma Tanner is a poet who has been haunting poetry shows across the South of England since she was 16 years old. She won Brighton Festival’s Peacock Poetry Prize in 2016 and has just completed her first poetry collection “Ophelia Says Goodnight”. Her work grapples with climate grief, mental health, queerness and the burden of literary history.
Insta: @emmathetanner